CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) — Messy circumstances on the Lowcountry’s bridges have endured Wednesday morning with site visitors backing up as a number of reported accidents shut lanes.
The Don Holt Bridge and the Cosgrove Bridge at the moment are closed in each instructions. A number of accidents have reported accidents.
This all began between 4:35 a.m. and 5:10 a.m., when dispatch data confirmed three totally different crashes all between Virginia Avenue and Clements Ferry Street. This was solely the start of what has proved to be a treacherous morning on the Lowcountry’s roadways; a number of crashes have stacked up on the bridge within the time since.
Backed up site visitors could possibly be seen on a lot of the bridge earlier than the 5 a.m. hour even hit. Circumstances have worsened since.
First Alert Meteorologist Joey Sovine mentioned that there did look like moisture on the bridge that’s prone to freeze over in circumstances corresponding to those the Lowcountry has seen Wednesday morning. North Charleston Police warned that these crashes have been certainly attributable to ice and a few dense, patchy fog.
Drivers are urged to take the Ravenel Bridge if needing to get onto Daniel Island and Mount Nice. Motorists ought to use warning whereas driving in these circumstances and keep away from the areas of those crashes the place doable and drive slowly in mild of the potential for ice.
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